Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: Clock is ticking on infrastructure

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Sunday the administration will push for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure but the House will begin marking up key parts of the plan on Wednesday with or without the GOP.

“This has got to be done soon,” Ms. Granholm told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Democrats control the House, but the key obstacle for Mr. Biden’s ambitions will be in the evenly divided Senate. 

Republicans are dispatching Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia to the White House to lead talks, though Mr. Biden rejected a GOP counteroffer that added $50 billion in spending but remains far short of the president’s $1.7 trillion plan.

Ms. Capito and Mr. Biden will meet again Monday.